Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 227 324
Rank change year-on-year -143 +97 -74
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 476 684 840
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.39% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.55% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 244 304 486
10th Percentile £36,750 £48,488 £38,195
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £51,783
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,038 £72,500 £68,338
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% +6.09% +1.24%
75th Percentile £80,313 £87,813 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £58,700
% change year-on-year - +6.47% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,896 44,261 80,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 90.09% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,426 24,863 55,989
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 17 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -135 436 £63,076 -13.00% 378
London -41 253 £71,121 -11.10% 286
Work from Home +41 248 £63,000 -4.18% 129
UK excluding London -191 178 £62,500 - 131
North of England -6 67 £63,076 -19.90% 27
North West +14 45 £85,000 +13.33% 14
South East -140 30 £45,000 -28.00% 49
East of England -12 29 £65,000 -9.72% 15
Midlands -42 25 £55,000 -18.52% 21
South West -72 22 £68,528 +14.21% 7
West Midlands -22 21 £57,500 -14.81% 13
Yorkshire -35 19 £60,850 -22.73% 12
Scotland -1 5 £85,000 +4.62% 9
East Midlands -22 4 £38,347 -46.18% 8
Wales -51 3 £69,501 +16.11% 3
North East -55 3 £63,076 -23.54% 1

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (2.94%) Confluence
3 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.05%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (11.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 27 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.21%) Moqups
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (8.19%) Workfront
2 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.84%) Shopify
3 2 (0.42%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Eikon
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.21%) RMDS
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 72 (15.13%) AWS
1 72 (15.13%) SaaS
2 53 (11.13%) iPaaS
3 52 (10.92%) Azure
4 16 (3.36%) GCP
5 14 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.52%) GitHub
8 10 (2.10%) Figma
9 9 (1.89%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.68%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.26%) Asana
12 6 (1.26%) Pulumi
13 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.05%) Miro
14 4 (0.84%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.84%) Azure AI
14 4 (0.84%) H2O.ai
14 4 (0.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 68 (14.29%) Broadband
2 30 (6.30%) HTTP
3 10 (2.10%) WAN
4 8 (1.68%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.47%) Firewall
6 6 (1.26%) LAN
7 5 (1.05%) Network Security
7 5 (1.05%) NGN
8 4 (0.84%) MPLS
8 4 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.63%) WLAN
10 2 (0.42%) DNS
10 2 (0.42%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.42%) Intranet
10 2 (0.42%) Multicast
10 2 (0.42%) SAN
10 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.42%) VoIP
10 2 (0.42%) Wireless
11 1 (0.21%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (11.97%) Metadata
2 13 (2.73%) Power BI
3 7 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.26%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.26%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.05%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.63%) Big Data
6 3 (0.63%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.63%) Tableau
7 2 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.42%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.21%) MySQL
8 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.21%) Redis
8 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (6.30%) JIRA
2 6 (1.26%) Git
2 6 (1.26%) Jaeger
3 2 (0.42%) Selenium
4 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.21%) GitLab
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) Postman
4 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 157 (32.98%) Marketing
2 154 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 140 (29.41%) Finance
4 68 (14.29%) Banking
5 60 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (12.39%) Retail
7 51 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
8 49 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 48 (10.08%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (9.45%) Law
11 32 (6.72%) Public Sector
12 28 (5.88%) Legal
13 21 (4.41%) Back Office
14 16 (3.36%) Manufacturing
14 16 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (2.94%) Italian Language
15 14 (2.94%) Retail Banking
16 11 (2.31%) German Language
17 10 (2.10%) Telecoms
18 9 (1.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 148 (31.09%) Product Manager
2 75 (15.76%) Product Owner
3 70 (14.71%) Lead
4 68 (14.29%) Senior
5 41 (8.61%) Senior Manager
6 38 (7.98%) Senior Product Manager
6 38 (7.98%) Software Engineer
7 31 (6.51%) Development Engineer
8 30 (6.30%) Software Development Engineer
9 24 (5.04%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (4.20%) Developer
11 16 (3.36%) Consultant
12 15 (3.15%) Platform Manager
12 15 (3.15%) Product Lead
13 14 (2.94%) Business Consultant
13 14 (2.94%) Business Development Consultant
13 14 (2.94%) Development Consultant
14 12 (2.52%) AWS Developer
14 12 (2.52%) Azure Developer
14 12 (2.52%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.93%) REST
2 8 (1.68%) PyTorch
2 8 (1.68%) TensorFlow
3 6 (1.26%) CSS
3 6 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.26%) HTML
3 6 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (1.05%) LangChain
5 4 (0.84%) Keras
5 4 (0.84%) LangGraph
5 4 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.84%) Spring
5 4 (0.84%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.63%) .NET
7 2 (0.42%) FHIR
7 2 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.42%) Pandas
7 2 (0.42%) React
7 2 (0.42%) Seaborn
7 2 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 169 (35.50%) Product Ownership
2 64 (13.45%) Social Media
3 54 (11.34%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.34%) Over-the-Top Content
4 36 (7.56%) Cloud Native
5 31 (6.51%) Public Cloud
6 19 (3.99%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.57%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.52%) Web Conferencing
11 11 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.89%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.68%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.68%) Driving Licence
13 8 (1.68%) Educational Technology
14 7 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (1.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.15%) Linux
2 8 (1.68%) Windows
3 7 (1.47%) Unix
4 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.21%) CentOS
5 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (62.82%) Roadmaps
2 217 (45.59%) Agile
3 137 (28.78%) Product Roadmap
4 127 (26.68%) Product Vision
5 109 (22.90%) Decision-Making
6 100 (21.01%) AI
6 100 (21.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 93 (19.54%) User Stories
8 91 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 85 (17.86%) Customer Experience
10 84 (17.65%) Product Backlog
11 78 (16.39%) Product Requirements
12 75 (15.76%) Sprint Planning
13 73 (15.34%) Mentoring
14 71 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
14 71 (14.92%) Software Engineering
15 68 (14.29%) User Experience
15 68 (14.29%) Workflow
16 64 (13.45%) Analytics
17 63 (13.24%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.45%) Java
2 26 (5.46%) Python
3 17 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.52%) SQL
5 9 (1.89%) Bash
6 6 (1.26%) Bicep
6 6 (1.26%) Go
7 3 (0.63%) C#
7 3 (0.63%) C++
7 3 (0.63%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.63%) PHP
7 3 (0.63%) R
8 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.21%) C
9 1 (0.21%) Perl
9 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 76 (15.97%) Degree
2 12 (2.52%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.10%) SC Cleared
4 9 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.89%) HND
4 9 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 8 (1.68%) HNC
6 6 (1.26%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.26%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.84%) CCNA
7 4 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.84%) CSPO
7 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.63%) CISSP
8 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.42%) CBAP
9 2 (0.42%) CIMA
9 2 (0.42%) IIBA
9 2 (0.42%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.67%) QA
2 19 (3.99%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.31%) GDPR
4 10 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.84%) PERC
5 4 (0.84%) SLA
6 2 (0.42%) DICOM
6 2 (0.42%) HL7
6 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (2.52%) Docker
2 4 (0.84%) Firmware
3 3 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (4.20%) Terraform
2 11 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.26%) Ansible
3 6 (1.26%) Argo
3 6 (1.26%) Kustomize
3 6 (1.26%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.63%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.42%) WSUS
6 1 (0.21%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (12.61%) Adobe
2 47 (9.87%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.15%) Google
4 12 (2.52%) Oracle
5 10 (2.10%) Cisco
6 7 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.26%) Dell
8 5 (1.05%) Databricks
8 5 (1.05%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.05%) Juniper
9 4 (0.84%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.84%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.84%) Toshiba
10 3 (0.63%) Aderant
10 3 (0.63%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.63%) iManage
10 3 (0.63%) Reuters
10 3 (0.63%) VMware
11 2 (0.42%) Amplitude